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Policy Instruments and Policy Capacity

2005
Governing involves making a number of strategic choices that will have consequences for the government’s capacity to achieve its stated policy goals. One of the more important decisions for the government is the choice of instruments to use to implement its programmes. Part of the design of any policy, then, is choosing how to achieve its goals.
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CAPACITY ALLOCATION AND INVENTORY POLICY IN A DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM

Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, 2006
We consider a single-period distribution system with one supplier and two retailers. The supplier may have infinite or finite capacity. The demand at each retailer is random. When a stockout occurs at one retailer the customer may go to the other retailer. We study both the decentralized and centralized inventory control problems.
Yue Dai 0001, Xiuli Chao, Shu-Cherng Fang, Henry L. W. Nuttle   +3 more
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Capacity, Capacity, Capacity: The Challenge of Urban Policy in the Age of Obama

Journal of Urban Affairs, 2015
The Act establishing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in 1965 articulated a broad mission for the new cabinet-level department: The Congress hereby declares that the gener...
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Policy Capacity in China’s Social Policy Reform

2021
Resource allocation and capacity to implement policies are very important in social policy reforms. In many cases, the fiscal resource allocation is neither enough nor efficient. Information capacity and analytic capacity in managing social programs is another important issue. There are also institutional reasons behind this insufficient capacity. This
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The Challenge of Policy Capacity in Biofuels Policy Design

2014
A feature of biofuels policies that we have been reminded of in writing this book is the sheer ambition of policy-makers in seeking to establish and drive the rapid and considerable expansion of biofuels production and use. Yet this ambition has another dimension to it: are policymakers in the 21st century capable of such direction of markets?
Robert Ackrill, Adrian Kay
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Exploring Capacity for Strategic Policy Work: Water Policy in Australia

2017
Claims that policy capacity has been eroded in the world of new public management have been widely canvassed. Yet these conceptualizations of policy capacity have mainly been linked to traditional and rationalist views of the policy process, where the focus is on content expertise for understanding the issue, analytical skills for generating viable ...
Bettini, Yvette, Head, Brian W.
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Capacity Utilisation and Excess Capacity: Theory, Evidence, and Policy

Review of Industrial Organization, 2000
This paper models capacity utilisation as a cyclical variable that reflects both the value of precautionary capacity and the desire to hold strategic excess capacity. Business unit data from the Profit Impact on Marketing Strategy (PIMS) database of large, predominantly US, companies are used.
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Serbia's Foreign Policy Capacity

Mediterranean Quarterly, 2009
Foreign policy capacity is defined as dynamic, information-based adaptation by nation-states in complex, ambiguous environments that involve their domestic systems as well as external variables. On questions of Bosnia and Kosovo, Serbia's policy capacity is weakened by lack of domestic consensus on whether Belgrade should embrace East or West on Balkan
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Policy capacity

2022
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Optimal outpatient capacity allocation under the capacity-addition policy

Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2022
Bowen Jiang, Miao Yu
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